Health literacy and use of outpatient physician services by Medicare managed care enrollees.

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Published in J Gen Intern Med on March 01, 2004

Authors

David W Baker1, Julie A Gazmararian, Mark V Williams, Tracy Scott, Ruth M Parker, Diane Green, Junling Ren, Jennifer Peel

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Suite 200, 676 N. Clair Street, Chicago, IL 60611, USA. dwbaker@northwestern.edu

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